It’s safe to say that since COVID first hit the United States back in January of 2020, no “news” organization has told more lies about the pandemic than Fox, which also happens to have the largest audience of any conservative network.
Consider a few of Fox’s biggest lies about coronavirus, as compiled by Gizmodo:
- “According to Fox News host Tucker Carlson, the U.S. government is hiding deaths from the covid-19 vaccine. It’s a claim Carlson made multiple times in 2021, like on May 5, when he pulled numbers from the federal Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, or VAERS.” (That’s false, Politifact reported)
- “On the December 8, 2021 edition of Tucker Carlson’s online show, the Fox News host claimed that covid-19 was making men more feminine:
“So somebody who knows him told me, and I’d be interested in getting your take on this, that getting covid emasculated him, it changed him, it feminized him, it weakened him as a man,” Carlson asked. (Not even remotely true.)
- “Fox News host Martha MacCallum made the claim on March 9 that masks probably weren’t helping in the ways being promoted by the U.S. government, albeit belatedly.” (Actually, all scientific evidence suggests that masks do indeed slow the spread of the disease.)
So it probably shouldn’t come as any surprise that Fox correspondent Peter Doocy would try to sneak a lie past White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki when he asked:
“You’re triple-vaxed, still got COVID. Why is the president still referring to this as a pandemic of the unvaccinated?”
And that’s when Pskai burned Doocy to the ground using every conservative’s worst enemy: Facts.
“Well I think, Peter, that there’s a significant difference. I had been triple-vaxxed. I had minor symptoms. There is a huge difference between that and being unvaccinated. You are 17 times more likely to go to the hospital if you’re unvaccinated, 20 times more likely to die.”
The scientific evidence does indeed support Psaki and the Biden administration, with recent data from hospitals in the state of New York showing that unvaccinated people in the state are 32 times more likely to be hospitalized if they contract COVID-19.
